Originally Posted by Porco Rosso
I wouldn't necessarily consider it purely commercial considerations.
Is the safest option a minor re-route or maybe an orbit for a one ton aircraft at 90 knots or a two hundred ton aircraft at 250 knots?
The latter covers an awful lot of countryside.
Someone has to make the decision, whichever way the atco goes the other side will think they were disadvantaged so it's a lose/lose situation for ATC.
You're missing the point. In Class G it isn't a decision for an ATCO to make.
In any event, I don't consider a 90 degree track change or a course reversal in class G to be a minor re-route. This has happened to me on a number of occasions, even when I have been in sight of the other traffic and quite happy to make my own separation on a see and be seen basis, as I am entitled and required to do. I also carry passengers who are on a tight schedule, btw; I'm not flying GA for pleasure. Often the man who signs my pay cheque is actually sitting in the aircraft
